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Evangelical sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankful commemorations for Gods mercy in our great…Evangelicall sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankfull commemorations for Gods mercy in our great…
Evangelical sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankful commemorations for Gods mercy in our great deliverance from the papists powder-plot. 2. The successful seeker. 3. Faith triumphant. 4. Special preparations to fit us for our latter end in four funeral sermons. 5. The faithful covenanter. 6. The demand of a good conscience. 7. The sword of the wicked. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibbs. Doctor in Divinity, Mr. of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Gray's-Inn. The third tome. Published and perused by D. Sibbs own appointment, subscribed with his hand to prevent imperfect copies after his decease.Evangelicall sacrifices In xix. sermons. I. Thankfull commemorations for Gods mercy in our great deliverance from the papists powder-plot. 2. The successefull seeker. 3. Faith triumphant. 4. Speciall preparations to fit us for our latter end in foure funerall sermons. 5. The faithfull covenanter. 6. The demand of a good conscience. 7. The sword of the wicked. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibbs. Doctor in Divinity, Mr. of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher to the honourable society of Grayes-Inne. The third tome. Published and perused by D. Sibbs owne appointment, subscribed with his hand to prevent imperfect copies after his decease.
London: printed by Thomas for N. Bourne, 1640
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What is the reason of it?
It makes things not otherwise seen, be seen, and presently seen; it gives a being to things. It is a strange power that faith hath: faith is the eye of the sanctified soul, it is the light of the soul.
It makes things not otherwise seene, be seene, and presently seene; it gives a being to things. It is a strange power that faith hath: faith is the eye of the sanctified soule, it is the light of the soule.
In the dark, though things have a colo• and a lustre in them, yet till light co•e to make them clear, they are all as if they […] ⟨p. 221⟩not, they are not seen: but when the light discovers them, then those things that were impossible to be seen, and had in them colour, and lustre, they come to be actually seen. So it is wi•h faith, there is the happiness of a Christian, there is glory, and grace; reason it seeth not this; here is a night of all these things, if there be not light in the eye of faith: now when there comes the promise of God as a light discovering them, and the eye of faith to see all this, then here is an evidence of the things, a clear sight of them which without faith are as excellent things in the night that no eye can see. Faith is a further light, a light beyond all, a supernatural heavenly light, and sight, it sees beyond all other eyes, beyond the eye of the body, or beyond the other eye of the soul, which is reason.
In the darke, though things have a colo• and a lustre in them, yet till light coe to make them cleare, they are all as if they